Revision of Toxomerus Macquart, 1855 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Brazil with synonymic notes, identification key to the species and description of three new species 2179
Author
Borges, Zuleica M.
Author
Couri, Marcia S.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-08-06
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Toxomerus papaveroi
sp. nov
(
Figs. 9
,
16
,
20
,
34
,
62, 63, 64
,
122, 123, 124
)
Male.
Head: face 1/2 as long as eye width, shiny yellow, sparsely white pollinose laterally, yellow pilose laterally; gena brownish yellow; frontal triangle yellow, black and white pilose; vertical triangle narrow, elongate, black, brownish-black pollinose except shiny posterior to ocellar triangle, black pilose; occiput black, pale yellowish bronze pollinose, with thick white pile on ventral 1/2, with thin yellow pile dorsally, with a short row of black pile superiorly; antenna orange, black pilose; arista brown.
Thorax: postpronotum yellow, proepisternum black, dull pollinose, yellow pilose; supracoxal yellow macula present; scutum black except broadly yellow laterally, bronze pollinose except for greyish pollinose medial vitta, yellow pilose; scutellum yellow, dull, black pilose; anepisternum black except yellow posterior 1/2, yellow pilose; katepisternum black except dorsal 1/3 yellow, dull, yellow pilose; katepimeron yellow on anterior 1/2, black posteriorly; plumula yellow; calypter yellow with yellow fring except black fringe on dorsal lobe; posterior mesothoracic pleuron (katepimeron, meron, katatergum, anatergum and postscutellum) black; metathoracic pleuron yellow; metasternum yellow; halter yellow (
Fig. 9
). Legs: pro- and mesolegs yellow except coxae black, yellow pilose; metacoxa yellow, yellow pilose; metafemur yellow except brown subapical annulus, yellow pilose except black pilose on ventroapical 3/4 and apical 1/4; metatibia yellow, black pilose on basal 1/2, yellow pilose apically; metatarsus brown, black pilose (
Fig. 20
). Wing: hyaline, extensively bare, microtrichose only: on apical 1/6 of cell R1, apical 2/3 of cell R2+3, apical 3/4 of cell R4+5, apical 1/2 of cells DM and Cu1, and on anal lobe; alula broad, as broad as cell BM apically, microtrichose (
Fig. 16
).
Abdomen: 1st tergum yellow except narrowly black apically, yellow pilose except narrowly black pilose on apicomedial margin; 2
nd
tergum yellow except brownish black on apical 1/3, yellow pilose except black pilose apically; 3
rd
tergum yellow except brownish black apical 1/3, with small basomedial black punctum, black pilose; 4
th
tergum yellow except brownish black apical 1/3, with small basomedial black punctum which is connected to apical dark area by dark submedial vitta, black pilose; 5
th
tergum yellow except with large basomedial black elongate triangular macula on basal 1/3, black pilose; sterna yellow, yellow pilose (
Fig. 34
). Male genitalia: surstylus broader on medial 1/3; postanal process 1/3 as long as surstylus; aedeagus all enlarged; superior lobe somewhat rounded with short anterior extension, with scattered hairs, longer on anterior margin (
Figs. 62–64
).
Female
. Similar to male except for normal the frons black, bronze pollinose, black pilose; fronto-orbital plate. black on 1/3 superior and yellow on 2/3 inferior, bronze pollinose, black pilose. Anterior anepisternum bare. Female genitalia: 9
th
tergum with triangular black macula medially; epiproct reduced; cercus slender; hypoproct somewhat triangular; 9
th
sternum somewhat quadrangular; three spermatecae eliptical, with the same size (
Figs. 122–124
).
Length: body 6.5–7.5 mm. Wing 5.0–6.0 mm.
Discussion.
Toxomerus papaveroi
is very similar to
T. duplicatus
and
T. paraduplicatus
, but differs from them in having a supracoxal yellow macula present, more extensively bare wing and distinct male genitalia.
Etymology
: This species is named after
Nelson
Papavero, in recognition of his contribution to our knowledge of the Neotropical
Diptera
fauna.
Type material
.
Holotype
.
BRAZIL
.
Santa Catarina
:
Nova Teutônia
, male,
XI/1969
,
F. Plaumann
(
CNC
)
.
Paratypes
.
ARGENTINA
.
Catamarca
:
El Pintado, S.
La Vina,
♂
,
27–29/IX/1968
,
L. Pena
(
CNC
)
.
PERU
.
Loreto
:
San Antonio
,
♂
&
2♀
,
11/VIII/1965
,
12/VIII/1965
,
J. C. Hitchcock
, Jr. (
USNM
)
.
Geographical record.
Southeastern
Brazil
,
Argentina
and
Peru
.